Social skills moderate the time-varying association between aggression and peer rejection among children with and without ADHD.

ABSTRACT: Although childhood aggression is typically associated with peer rejection, some children concurrently employ coercive and socially skilled behavior and successfully avoid negative peer outcomes. However, research on children's dual use of coercive and social behavior has largely employed cross-sectional designs with nonclinical populations and, as a result, little is known about the covariation of aggression with social skills, particularly among high-risk samples. We directly addressed this limitation by testing childhood aggression and social skills as separate time-varying predictors of prospective change in peer rejection in a sample of children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Two hundred and two 5-10-year-old children (M = 7.9 years, SD = 1.2) with an

SUBMITTER: Glenn DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10155268 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature